In the best of our Baptist traditions, baptism is both an individual act and a communal act.

First Baptist Church of Fort Oglethorpe is at 2645 LaFayette Road and has a traditional service at 10 a.m. and a contemporary service at 11 a.m. Bible Studies meet all over campus at 9 a.m.

Yet, at the Community of Faith Church’s first-ever outdoor baptism for the homeless, “Alive by Faith,” a long line wound toward the portable baptismal pools, where one by one, men and women stepped ...

A scheduled vote on making baptism by immersion a requirement for church membership did not come to a vote at Henderson Hills Baptist Church Sunday. Instead, the church’s executive pastor, Kim Swyden, ...